Making Rhyme: Critically acclaimed rapper MC Talib Kweli brings poetry and politics to hip-hop.
Living Music: New Music Works concentrated--with one exception--on the work of the undead for its Night of the Living Composers concert last week.
Sights & Sounds: NOFX stays young by not taking its role as skate-punk legend too seriously.
In the Running: Novelist Jane Smiley takes time out from a book tour to talk about some of her favorite equine friends.
Dim and Dimmer: Modern restaurants turn off diners by turning the lights way down low.
Red Menace: Russian criminals, zonked on tabloid TV, attack America in '15 Minutes.'
Weekly World Web: Snopes.com analyzes those pesky urban legends so you don't have to.
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